A Pretty Good eBay Guide for Beginners

Written by Chris on July 29, 2008 – 2:30 pm -

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As you have probably noticed, I have started running some affiliate offers through Market Leverage on Dorm Room Biz. While my intention is not to spam you all, my dear readers, I do want to put out offers that I think you all would consider useful and help you reach your goals of making money and starting a business. With that being said, every once in a while as I switch up the offers on Dorm Room Biz, I’ll highlight one of them to bring them more to your attention and share it with you. The ones that I do share with you will most likely be ones that I have personally tried myself.

With that being said, there is a pretty good offer in the sidebar for people who are looking to learn more about selling on eBay and want to grasp the opportunity to make some money from the online marketplace.

The offer gives you access to a GREAT ebook and CD titled “Auction Professor” as well as some other good resources. One of them is access to a wholesale supplier website which has thousands of different products for you to access at great wholesale prices. The offer does have a cost to it, of only $2.29. For this price, you get the eBook “Auctions Professor” on CD so you can take it with you anywhere.

Here is how you can also benefit from completing the offer
So, because this is an affiliate offer that I am running, if you were to sign up for the trial experiences and pay the $2.29 for the CD, I will make a little bit of money for the referral. HOWEVER, what I want to do is something a little different - I want to pass some of that earnings back to you, my readers. So if you sign up for the offer and complete it (and contact me to confirm it) I will send you $10 (a $7.71 profit for you) for just a couple minutes of your time. Not too bad right? Even if you were not interested in selling on eBay, this is a quick chance to bump up your PayPal account with a few extra bucks. However, if you are looking to gain some tracking by using eBay to make money online, then this is a win-win situation for you.

Have questions? Be sure to ask! A final important thing to remember - if you do not want to continue using the different websites that you gain access to, then you will need to cancel your subscriptions or you will be charged.

Tags: Auction Professor, eBay, making money online, market leverage, Offers
Posted in Business Ideas, Reviews, eBay | 1 Comment »

Market Leverage Is Ruling The Blogosphere With Contests!

Written by Chris on June 12, 2008 – 12:00 pm -

If you have been following some of the more popular bloggers such as John Chow, Ian Fernando, and Tyler Cruz, you will have noticed that they all launched contests on the same day with the same prizes sponsored by the same company - Market Leverage. Seems like they may be trying to make a statement and make a push to get some more people signed up for their great affiliate marketing service. As you also probably noticed, I have signed up with them but that was a week or so ago and am not eligible for some of the contests.

If you are interested in signing up for Market Leverage, I’d love for you to sign up through my affiliate link but of course it’s not required. If you want to participate in the contests being run by Tyler and Ian, you will need to register for Market Leverage through their referral - a sneaky way for them to make extra money as you compete to make as much money as you can in a time period.

However, if you do want a shot at a Nike duffel bag full of Market Leverage stuff, then check out the contest that John Chow is running.

All you need to do is blog about the contest and send a trackback - its that easy. Then, you just hope that you get picked as a winner of one of the great prizes. See any of the many contests happening around the net to see what is being given away!

Contests are also happening at Balkhis and CashTactics.

Tags: affliate marketing, Contests, ian fernando, John Chow, market leverage, Market Leverage Contests, zac johnson
Posted in Blogging, Contests | 1 Comment »

May Blog Income Earnings for Dorm Room Biz

Written by Chris on June 3, 2008 – 12:00 pm -

About this time every month, different bloggers start sharing with their readers how much they earned from their blogs the previous month. So, since May turned out to be a pretty decent month for Dorm Room Biz, I thought that I would share some of the results with you all. Now, I am NO WHERE NEAR any significant amount for my blog income, but every little bit helps and recording and reporting it like this is a good way to set benchmarks. Here is a break down.

• ReviewMe: $15.00
• AdSense: $15.69
• Private Ads/Posts: $20.00
• Text Link Ads: $5.51
• CashCrate: $22.79

Total: $78.99

ReviewMe - ReviewMe is a great way to make some extra money from your blog by writing sponsored posts. Even though I did not have any high paying offers from ReviewMe to be posted on Dorm Room Biz, I utilized a couple of the different campaigns that came across my RSS feed reader. Had I jumped on more of them and spent time to write more posts on different websites and topics, this could have amounted to at least $50 for the month. However, when I consider different reviews to take on through ReviewMe’s campaigns, I try to keep the content relevant to Dorm Room Biz and the topics that you all are interested in reading about. This helps the paid posts to not be as obvious and to not be obtrusive to you all.

Google AdSense: Although it is not a major earner for me, it does bring in a few bucks here and there. I am going to be working on better optimizing the site to utilize AdSense in a couple different ways which will hopefully result in a higher CTR and a higher payout to me!

Private Ads/Private Posts: This is usually the category that is the biggest earner just because different businesses and bloggers are more interested in working directly with another blogger as opposed to working through a third party service. It also allows the blogger writing a sponsored post or putting up a private ad to make a higher amount rather than totally relying on a service like Text Link Ads. With the installation of OIOPublisher, I hope that I will be able to increase my private ad sales by offering other areas throughout the site that you can advertise in. For the current rates, please email me, but you can get an idea of where they are at right now by visiting the Advertising page. If you are not using OIOPublisher to manage your private ad sales, I definitely suggest you check it out!

Text Link Ads - I didn’t even realize that I had sold any for the month! I got my TLA integrated with my regular links sections and for some reason didn’t receive notification that I had sold one and never noticed it. Anyway, its nothing to quit a job over or even get paid for the month, but will eventually get paid out as more sell. I already had $25 worth of TLAs sell on another site of mine, so the end of June I should receive a combined payment.

CashCrate - I know I have said it before, but I really do love the way CashCrate works and the great system they have set up. CashCrate is a constant money maker for me and I can always rely on it to generate some extra money. If you haven’t already, take a look at the different reviews that I have done on CashCrate here and here and then sign up for the program so that you too can start making money! Once you get your account established and you make your money from completing surveys, get referrals signed up underneath of you so that your earning power continues to grow.

Besides these money makers, I have also joined up with Market Leverage to bring my readers different offers that will hopefully benefit you all, so look at for these different offers around the site. If you are looking to get into affiliate marketing and more serious advertising revenues, I strongly suggest you take a look at ML and sign up. Bloggers such as Zac Johnson, Ian Fernando, John Chow, and Shoemoney have had great success with them and they are a great group of people willing to help you out!

There are just so many ways out there to make money online from blogging that it is hard to test them all out. I am interested in any experiences that you all, my readers, have had from working with any of the companies that I have mentioned above or any others. Now that I am getting into putting more advertising on the Dorm Room Biz site, I am contemplating ANOTHER redesign (I know, I know - I just had it redesigned not too long ago). But, I would like to change up the side bar some and make it into a 2 column sidebar to utilize the space better as well as make for less scrolling just to see the sidebar items. We shall see!

I also have some other cool ideas planned for Dorm Room Biz over the next couple months, so be on the look out for some new releases of different items in the near future!

Here’s to blogging success!
Chris

Tags: CashCrate, google adsense, ian fernando, income report, John Chow, market leverage, private ad sales, reviewme, shoemoney, text link ads, zac johnson
Posted in Blogging, Monetizing Websites, Website Updates / News | 5 Comments »